Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich Paperback - 1996
by Doris L. Bergen
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How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described "German Christians", who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old Testament, ousted people defined as non-Aryans from their congregations, denied the Jewish ancestry of Jesus, and removed Hebrew words like "Hallelujah" from hymns. Bergen refutes the notion that the German Christians were a marginal group and demonstrates that members occupied key positions within the Protestant church even after their agenda was rejected by the Nazi leadership. Extending her analysis into the postwar period, Bergen shows how the German Christians were relatively easily reincorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout Twisted Cross, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a "manly" church.
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- Title Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich
- Author Doris L. Bergen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 358
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-03-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780807845608 / 0807845604
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.18 x 0.96 in (23.62 x 15.70 x 2.44 cm)
- Reading level 1480
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Germany - Church history - 1933-1945, German-Christian movement - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95017954
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.709
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